From the 12th to the 21st of July 2017, AMSED organised a seminar in Strasbourg on the topic of the environment: “Let’s change our behaviour, not the climate!”. During ten days, the forty participants from Europe, the Caucasian and North African countries, have thought about the question of climate change: its causes and effects, the representations and policies about the environment put in place in the different countries, and, ultimately, the possible solutions to answer this major problematic of our century.

As a result of these multiple workshops – individual and group work, theoretical reflections or based on concrete examples – that they have realised throughout the seminar, the participants made a list of concrete recommendations, targeting the four main player groups of our society: civil society, the media, public and private businesses, political decision-makers.

They were supported in this task by four experts: M. Voltz, representing the association COLECOSOL, M. Francesco Morra, participant to the seminar and journalist in Italy, M. Schultz, director of the public institution IRCOD and M. Ramdane, elected member of the green party at Strasbourg’s municipality.

Civil society

Local Community

Push local communities to use locally produced food

Raise farmers awareness to use the land in a rational way

People should produce less waste and consume less

Support people to organise themselves to produce locally and share and exchange their knowledge and work together.

NGOs

Support universities and schools with EVS / stage interns

Make a transparent footprint label about work conditions

Capacity improvement

Food outreach/awareness program

Control big industries in order for them to respect the law

Networking

Education

Integrate sustainable growth activities in national education

Special courses on sustainable growth

Train teachers in sustainable growth

Educate people so they can get the correct information about climate change

The Media

TV/Radio

More educational advertisements on climate change

Specialised programs like cartoons and animations

Obligatory broadcasting (10/15 min on each channel)

Cheaper advertisements for eco-friendly and local products

More visibility for environmental campaigns

Social Media

Create an application to get information on where to make eco-friendly purchases

Creating trend topics everyday / tweet-retweet

Favour the Youtuber channels that talk about the environment

Measuring ecological footprints through Facebook

Making money through Youtube other video platforms and donating it to NGOs

Create a public Youtube channel

Create a blog to share eco-gestures

Billboards

Increase the visibility of environmental problems

Public and Private Businesses

Promote recycling (usage of recyclable products, put in place a recycling branch)

Initiate in each institution environmental norms and ensure their enforcement